Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

A photo of a person holding a US passport and an envelope.

Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from Germany. The passport of a man from Spain with glasses resting on his head. The front and back of another man’s driver’s license, a stereotypically goofy expression on his face.

They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort. If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.

« We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it. It will do damage, » Sammy Azdoufal told me i …

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